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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1940
Page
5
Corry society items highlight Mrs A D Colegrove hosting afternoon at Euclid street with Mexico topic and readings by Mrs Willis Brown and Miss Lena Mather. Notices cover engagements, hospital updates, college enrollments, and community events with local addresses and names throughout a bustling society page.
One hundred fifty relatives, neighbors and friends gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Ladd at Beaverdam to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. An open house from 2 to 10 pm featured cards, flowers and gifts including a gold tea set from a niece in Utah. Guests arrived from Wattsburg Warren Dairy Beaver dam Elgin and vicinity.
Fairview PTA announces the fifth horn supper with Rhatles ouurimes as general chairman of arrangements for the annual affair at Fairview school. Ms. George Bond chairs ticket sales and Mrs. Leon Brown handles dining room logistics. Serving starts at 6 p.m. and continues until finished. Proceeds fund a Vietrola radio combination for the school.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the YMCA met at Pirsh avenue to promote girls activities. Mrs E C Berjeau presided. Fourth grade and up will meet at the Y center Thursday afternoon. A sewing demonstration and tea were planned for Monday evening October 28 at the recreation center.
A fragment from a column on etiquette noting Americans often abandon manners outside home or office. The piece cites theater late arrivals, rude behavior in stores and on transit, and encourages considerate conduct, pairing light social critique with examples before segueing into a food preparation tip for potato chips with liver spread.
Delegates from eastern colleges gather for the 33rd annual conference of the Women’s Inter-Collegiate Association on the Allegheny campus. Miss Louise Gates of Canada’s YWCA and Miss Eugenie Leonard of the federal Education Department will preside. Local organizers include Miss Marenes Wilhe of Pittsburgh and Charle Zeima of Uniontown among others.
Miss Louise Williams acted as hostess at her Souih Cen ter St eel home for the Mentor Club last evening. Fourteen members attended. after roll call Mrs. G. E. Bennett presented a biography review of dames and a book review on Severi Gries Hus by Celeste Matschat given by Miss Mary Condra. A social period followed and Mrs. Donald Wilcox is to host the next meeting on Monday, November 11.
An advertisement extols San-Cura Ointment as a splendid antiseptic for minor burns and sores. It claims rapid relief from pain and aid to healthy healing, listing uses from cuts to rashes and piles, with a local druggist endorsement.
Ten Zip club members gathered at the Brynolfsons home on West Washington Street for cards and games. Mrs Brynolfson served a luncheon to guests including Mr and Mrs Willan Gould, Meysine Mera, Olin Simmons, Menti Mys, T Allan May and Mr Brynelfson. The group plans a November meeting at Mr and Mrs May on North Center Street.
Mrs Lawrence Anderson entertained sixteen boys and his son David on his birthday at a party. Attending were Derry Loyd Jan Swanson David Fleming Sylvia Amiersam Mary Api Scholing Mary Shannon Patty Hurlbut Barbara Nye Robert Burke Dorothy Patterson Maxine Montgomery Many Lou Splestian Harriet Markers and Mary Ellen Colegrove. David received many gifts. Recipes mention chopped apples, bread crumbs and a dish for fowl.
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